Rend

Rend
Character	Athena
Type	Gamechanger
Tier	3
Maximum Points	1
Skill Tree	Xiphos
Minimum Level	14
Effect	Your Melee attacks cause enemies to bleed, inflicting damage over time. The damage is increased against higher Health targets, and the damage also benefits from your Melee Damage bonuses.
Game	Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel

Rend is the only Tier 3 skill in Athena's Xiphos tree.
It grants Athena access to a unique damage-over-time condition that becomes more powerful against tougher enemies, and facilitates later skills.

Effect

• Bleed Duration: 12 Seconds
• Bleed deals up to +100% bonus damage against targets with high health.

Using a melee attack after purchasing Rend inflicts 'Bleed' on the target. Bleed's damage scales up with the health of the target, dealing up to 200% melee damage (including all bonuses from skills and equipment) against especially tough victims.

Strategy

• There is no limit on how many enemies can be Bleeding at the same time.
• Bleed is its own unique condition, allowing it to stack with Elemental damage-over-time.
• Rend scales with the enemy's total health, not with their remaining health. At less than 50% remaining health, Omega-Senshu will further increase Bleed Damage.

See Also

• Athena/Skill tree